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Ruffed grouse are very wild where the covers 
are open and it requires quick work with the 
gun to bag a few, in fact, the limit is four birds, 
and two men may tramp many miles to secure 
this small number. It seems to me that a half 
choke 16 gauge of 6% lbs. is more satisfactory 
than excessively light weapons of say 5 
to 5% lbs. 
I confess, however, that my tendency has been 
to shoot too quickly. The stock can scarcely be 
too straight but it can be too long. We are 
not shooting at clay birds. 
It is a delightful season of the year and even 
a couple of days in the woods makes a man fit. 
THEODORE GORDON. 
THAT LONG DISTANCE BAIT CASTING 
RECORD. 
Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 2, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream-. 
I note on page 535 of your issue of October 
24, that Dr. Carleton Simon has made a cast of 
349 % feet and that you believe this to be the 
longest cast on record. 
For your information, I would say that, ac¬ 
cording to Hardy’s Anglers Guide, published by 
Hardy Bros., Ltd., Alnwick, England, the world’s 
record for a 2% oz. event was made March 15, 
I 9 * I 3 » by Mr. A. P. Decantelle, at Paris, cast¬ 
ing 351 feet. 
I enclose the page containing this record, and 
trust it may be of interest to you. 
Hoping that some of our anglers on this side 
of the water will come forward with ?. record 
cast, I am, Yours sincerely, 
ROGER B. WHEELER. 
[With reference to the above, we may say that 
the record cited in the “Hardy Brothers, Ltd.” ' 
catalogue is correct, but in a measure, the Ameri¬ 
can record and the one made in Europe by Mr. 
A. P. Decantelle are not exactly in the same 
class. The “Silex” reel made by the English 
firm resembles an enlarged trout or salmon reel, 
being built on about the same standard. Its suc¬ 
cess is due to the fact that it contains a leve* 
or trigger which controls the gear mechanism. 
When the bait caster swings the rod, his finger 
releases the gears, and he holds the trigger taut 
until the weight strikes the water, when the reel 
motion is stopped by the simple operation of re¬ 
moving the finger from the mechanism. It ought 
to be possible to make longer casts with a reel 
of the kind described than with the usual reel 
which the American caster has been trained to 
employ but the difference in the two records, 
taking both as correct, is only 18 inches, the 
American mark having been set at 349% feet, 
while the record made in France by Mr. Decan¬ 
telle is 351 feet. 
New York consumes about 80,000 tons of ma¬ 
terial for tanning purposes, a large portion of 
which is hemlock and chestnut oak bark. Chest¬ 
nut wood is being used also as well as foreign 
materials, such as quebracho wood, mangrove 
bark, and myrobolan nuts, to supply the demand. 
New York uses about 132,000 cords of beech, 
birch and maple every year for wood distillation. 
This industry is doing much to save a lot of our 
former wood waste in logging operations and 
about saw mills. The chemical utilization of 
wood is practically undeveloped as yet and has 
very great future possibilities. 
It is seldom that a good standing shot is to be 
obtained of a deer nowadays as they are being 
hunted steadily and there is a great deal of 
shooting going on in the woods which is startling 
to the deer and other game. It is only in rare 
instances where the hunter happens to be “still” 
hunting or eating a lunch that a deer or other 
game appears and presents a standing shot. 
The boys of the State Ranger School at Wana- 
kena, which is under the control of The New 
York State College of Forestry at Syracuse, 
are living in the woods on a 7,000 acre tract of 
timber belonging to the Newton Falls Paper 
Company. Besides making a forest map and a 10 
per cent, estimate of the timber, they are learn¬ 
ing to cook and live as woodsmen. Previous 
to this the Ranger Students mapped and esti¬ 
mated 3,000 acres of timber near Adams. Men 
in this School are being prepared to fill positions 
as Guards, Rangers, Tree Planting Experts and 
Forest Estate Managers and are put up against 
every-day woods problems both in the School 
and in the woods. 
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